Top 50 Fitness Angel Investors

Investor	Fitness investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	11
Wei Guo	7
George Godula	7
Jason Calacanis	6
Edward Lando	6
Sinan Güler	5
Anupam Mittal	5
Benjamin Ling	4
Taavet Hinrikus	4
Jenny Saft	4
Mustafa Vardalı	4
Eric Roza	4
Lee Linden	4
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal	4
Mattias Weinhandl	4
Shane Neman	4
Julia Taylor Cheek	3
Daren Cotter	3
Peter Livingston	3
Max Levchin	3
Nick Telson-Sillett	3
Tim Ferriss	3
Will Herman	3
Alper Akcan	3
Jyri Engestrom	3
Mustafa Sevinç	3
Terry Moore	3
Henry Kravis	3
Hank Vigil	3
John Kobs	3
Trevor Fetter	3
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	3
John Doerr	3
Rick Marini	3
Amit Gupta	3
Mandeep Singh	3
Jared Leto	3
Veljo Toodo	3
Rick Marini	3
Yigit Ihlamur	2
Andy Phillipps	2
Hossein Noshirvani	2
Jonathan Swanson	2
Charles Huang	2
Mike Lee	2
Mark Mastrov	2
Kevin Lin	2
Chris Hughes	2
Vince Thompson	2
Felix Schaal	2

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
Yassir — Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria.
Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
CyberFilm AI — Bring your story to life!

Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

Investment focus

Apps, Wellness, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
Digime3D — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Nasher Miles — Shop Good Quality Premium Luggage Bags, Suitcases & Laptop Backpacks online on Nasher Miles. Wide Range of Small & Medium Cabin Bags, Travel Luggage Bags Sets in different Colours & Designs.
ReFit Global — ReFit Global converts electronic waste into affordable technological gems for a sustainable future. Their objective is to raise awareness and confidence among gadget users about reconditioned products.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

Ben is the Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital. He has backed 19 "unicorn" billion dollar companies, with the best yet to come.Previously, Ben was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo,Gitlab, True Accord, Webflow, among many others.Previously, Ben served in senior operating roles at Google, YouTube and Facebook. He also is an active angel investor with early stakes in Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, Quora, Gusto, Udemy and others.While at Google, he served as Senior Director of Search and Local Business Products, which included overseeing Google Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, Ben was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, where he was responsible for music, movies, sports and news, as well as mobile, television and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, he was the founder and general manager of Google’s commerce group, which includes Google Wallet and Google Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was the first director of the Facebook platform and oversaw the development of the company’s developer ecosystem. He also led product, marketing, developer operations and partner solutions. Ben played a crucial role in developing Facebook Connect, which helped grow Facebook across the web.Ben holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley, and a M.S. and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Ben is a Department of Defense fellow and a recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award, given to the top graduating senior from the College of Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.

Eric Roza is the Managing Director of Vista Equity Partners. He previously worked at Crestone Capital, LLC as an Advisory Board. Eric Roza attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Octane11 — Octane11 is a B2B marketing analytics platform that connects, enriches, and transforms siloed enterprise data to drive sales & marketing impact.
Most Days — Most Days is a subscription-based life improvement platform for mental, physical, and emotional wellness. Most Days helps the users to understand what they need to do to improve their lives and achieve change. The company aims to measurably increase quality and length of life, globally.
SnapCalorie — SnapCalorie is the app where you can take a photo of ANY meal and get an accurate calorie count.

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

Investment focus

Computer, Collaboration, Software
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Somewhere — Somewhere is the visual platform for sharing your work. The company aims to bring innovation to a space dominated for years by a single "big blue" category leader by building a platform that represents what work is actually like today and in the future.

Mattias Weinhandl

Investment focus

Apps, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Heja — Free app for your sports team. The only app you need to easily handle communication between coaches, managers, parents and players. Management, scheduling, availability, messaging, roster.
Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
BlueCall — BlueCall is a B2B mental wellness SaaS. We offer empowerment toolkit for organisation, HR and leaders to manage their employee's mental wellbeing. Hand in hand with our digital toolkit we provide digital and personalised coaching sessions to reinforce self development to individual's specific needs.

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
CG Oncology — CG Oncology is an oncolytic immunotherapy company that is intensely focused on developing bladder saving therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer.
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

Julia Taylor Cheek is the CEO and Founder of EverlyWell, a digital health startup empowering consumers to order, self-collect, and understand lab tests. Based in Austin, EverlyWell launched in June 2016 after raising $3M in capital and garnering awards from Tech Crunch and Rock Health. They now have over 5,000 customers in 46 states. Julia was alsonamed the number one female entrepreneur to watch by CIO magazine for 2017.Prior to founding EverlyWell in 2015, Julia was the Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at MoneyGram International, a public financial services company that operates in 200 countries. As the youngest VP in the company, she worked for MoneyGram’s CFO for several years, leading corporate transactions, restructuring projects, and special projects for the CEO. Before that, she served as the founding Director of Strategy and Operations at the George W. Bush Institute and played a key role in building the organization from just a handful of employees to the Presidential Center that you see today at Southern Methodist University.After attending Vanderbilt, Julia started her career in management consulting at Deloitte and went on to earn her MBA from the Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar with high distinction. She also is a former multiple World Champion equestrian, officially retiring in 2009.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Found — Weight Care from Found. Achievable and maintainable weight loss with individualized, medically-guided programs that fit your life. Take the quiz to see if it's right for you.
First Dollar — First Dollar is the health wallet for modern, member-first plans. We power software-defined benefits that people love to use.
Frame - Fertility & Family Building — Frame enables the early identification of fertility risk and care navigation leading to better outcomes for patients, employers and healthcare providers.

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
Refr Sports — Refr Sports is developing a platform solution to fix inefficiencies and shortages in the United States referee marketplace by bringing new generation technologies and employees to the industry. Sports referees currently rely on antiquated third-party referee schedulers to provide them with games to work. Similarly, sports organizations rely on thesame referee schedulers to provide referees that are qualified to officiate their games. This approach has not been updated in decades as the referee industry continues to use outdated technologies and employment methods. The result has been a severe drop in the supply of referees while at the same time demand has increased.Our application, Refr Sports, will modernize the current system, providing referees and sports coordinators an efficient and effective tool for completing their respective duties. Refr Sports makes this a reality by offering a mobile application that supports both referees and sports organizers as end users. Our app delivers complete freedom to the users by allowing the sports organizations to post their game schedules along with officiating needs and offered compensation for each game. Referees can then see the ‘work order’, accept it, and be paid immediately after the game. The Refr platform makes money by taking a small service and processing fee on the payments we facilitate through the app. This business model is very similar to what has been successful in the food (DoorDash), transportation (Uber) and personal care (care.com) industries.Our Refr Team, made up of business, technical and sporting experience, has set out on a mission to create the platform that will turn the referee industry into a gig economy marketplace. The world has seen this successfully materialize in many industries already and the referee industry can be next, by making it easy to post opportunities, claim opportunities, and get paid.

Peter Livingston is the Founder and General Partner at Unpopular Ventures. Peter attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Peru, India

Portfolio highlights

Landis — We buy your dream home and coach you towards mortgage eligibility. You rent to own your home until you are prepared to buy.
HODL Media — HODL Media is the publisher of the popular HODL app, a real-time crypto & stock market tracker.
Butter — Butter is an all in one virtual collaboration platform that empowers you to run highly engaging and effective collaborative sessions!

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

withco — You deserve to own your business' real estate. We help make that happen through a new concept: lease-to-own your commercial real estate.
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

sequel — A community of the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups, making a positive impact
Landscape — Landscape builds products and communities for founders and funders. VC Reviews, Data Driven VC Platform, Anonymous Founder Community, Angel Syndicate.
Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 150,000+ women we have taught so far!

Tim Ferriss is a startup angel investor, American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He has written many self-help books, including The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef.In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an online nutritional supplements company. He is also a guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he hasspoken on high-tech entrepreneurship since 2003 in the electrical engineering and ORFE departments. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org.As an angel investor, Ferriss has invested or advised in startups such as StumbleUpon, Posterous, Evernote, DailyBurn, Shopify, Reputation Defender, Trippy, Foodzie, Badongo, TaskRabbit, RescueTime, and SimpleGeo.

Investment focus

Wellness, Fitness, Marketplace
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mentava — Mentava is a software development company that supports top-performing students to achieve their potential.
Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
Athletic Greens — Athletic Greens is proudly manufactured in New Zealand, using a TGA-registered facility with standards far in excess of cGMP and FDA guidelines. It is made clean and green. Athletic Greens was formulated by research doctorates and nutritionists with a 60 years' combined experimental and clinical experience.

Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
Pristēm — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.

Alper Akcan

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed, Angel
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Finland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Angel
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.

Terry Moore

Investment focus

Fitness, Medical, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

BRIGHT — How old is your brain? Stay sharp with 40Hz light! Shop BEACON40 to mitigate age-related cognitive decline, memory loss, and brain fog.

Henry R. Kravis is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He attended Claremont McKenna College.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

PhysicsX — PhysicsX is a developer of AI and simulation engineering technologies to reinvent the design and operation of machines and products.
Moment — Quickly deploy fixed income trading and data tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.

Hank Vigil serves as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships of Microsoft Corp. He was Senior Director of Strategy Planning and Business Development for the Digital Television Group at Microsoft, responsible for the development of Microsoft’s digital TV strategy.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

John Kobs - CEO, Founder & Chairman @ Apartment List

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

SkillBank — Build your capital. With SkillBank, you will learn everything you need to know to land a marketing job in 15 weeks. You only pay us when you get paid.
SkillBank — The black market for skills. Learn from anonymous industry experts.
Quadrant Eye — QE is building novel at-home eyecare solutions.

Trevor Fetter

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Picwell — Picwell exists to ensure people get the direction they need to make wise employee benefit decisions.
Zeta Surgical — Next-Generation Surgical Navigation and Robotics
Vincere Health — Vincere Health is a Techstars-backed health tech company founded at the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2019. They use a combination of intelligent, frequent incentives, objectively verified health data, and health coaching to drive behavior change to solve healthcare's biggest challenges - starting with smoking cessation.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

John Doerr is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Since joining KPCB in 1980, John and his partners have backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit; and Mark Pincus of Zynga. John’s passion ishelping entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing in mobile and social networks, greentech innovation, education and economic development. Ventures sponsored by John have created more than 200,000 new jobs.John serves on boards in the areas of Internet technologies and greentech, including Amyris, Bloom Energy, Coursera, Essence Healthcare, Flipboard, FloDesign Wind Turbines, Google, iControl, mCube, Quantumscape, Renmatix, Upthere and Zynga. He also led KPCB's investment in Twitter.John’s technology career began in 1974 at Intel, just as the chipmaker was inventing the groundbreaking 8080 microprocessor. During his Intel years, he held roles in engineering, marketing, management and sales. John also learned about operating excellence from Intel co-founder Andy Grove — insight that he continues to share with entrepreneurs today.He later founded Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and co-founded @Home, the nationwide broadband cable Internet service.Outside of KPCB, John supports entrepreneurs focused on the environment, public education and alleviating global poverty. These include NewSchools.org, TechNet.org, the Climate Reality Project and ONE.org.John earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds several patents for computer memory devices.John is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Forward — Forward is revolutionary primary care focused on your long-term health, with top-rated doctors supported by technology.
Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
Rondo Energy — Zero-Carbon Industrial Heat: The Rondo Heat Battery provides low-cost, zero-emission heat for global industry.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.

Amit Gupta completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering in the year 2000.Growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi in 2007. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the most successful internet product companies across the global emerging outof India. Amit heads InMobi's Revenue and Operations and responsible for taking company to a sustainable profitability mark. He has played an instrumental role in expanding InMobi's footprint to multiple markets across 5 continents.Amit has been a serial entrepreneur, prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analyticsworks, a company that offered a platform for business intelligence. His professional experience include hot start ups like Andale where worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company, Aditi that gave him hands on experience on building software and a large multinational bank Citigroup where he helped to start scalable business intelligence unit for their consumer finance business. Amit is passionate about entrepreneurship. He has been helping several young entrepreneurs by advising them on every aspect of running a start up. He has received a highly coveted Distinguish Alumni Award from his alma mater for his exceptional entrepreneurial achievements.Earlier in the year, InMobi was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 50 disruptive companies in the world for 2013.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

AltUni — A place where you can explore a range of programs & courses that will get you your dream job or the promotion that you are aiming for; a place where you can outdo your ambition.
InsideIIM — Complete MBA Guide - CAT, XAT, GMAT, Mock Tests, Business Trends & Best MBA Institutions: IIMs, XLRI, SPJIMR, FMS, IIM Job Opportunities & Packages.
Factors.AI — Factors.ai is an end-to-end marketing analytics and attribution platform that integrated across data silos to deliver actionable, privacy compliant, AI-powered insights. Try now!

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.

Jared Leto is a musician, actor, director, entrepreneur, and artist.His two decades of work as an actor have encompassed a host of intense and transformative performances. Leto’s recent performance as the transgender AIDS patient Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club earned him both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, aswell as honors from nearly 60 critics’ organizations. Leto is set to play legendary villain, The Joker, in the upcoming supervillain film Suicide Squad (2016). Leto was honored with a Gotham Independent Film Award and Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award for his debut documentary feature, Artifact. Mr. Leto directed Artifact under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, the same alias under which he directs the award winning music videos for the multi-platinum-selling rock band, Thirty Seconds to Mars. Leto is the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist for the band, which has released four albums, including the recent Love Lust Faith + Dreams (2013). Notorious for their relentless touring, they have circled the globe playing sold-out arenas since 1998 and in support of the album This Is War, they played over 300 shows in nearly 60 countries on six continents to 3 million people, thereby breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest-ever concert tour by a rock band.Thirty Seconds to Mars has sold over ten million albums worldwide and their music videos have received more than a billion views on YouTube. The group has received numerous awards worldwide, including over a dozen MTV Awards; a Billboard Music Award; and honors from NME, Kerrang!, and Fuse. They were nominated for three 2013 MTV VMAs, including best rock video, which they won.Additionally he is deeply entrenched in tech as both an investor and founder. Leto has made over fifty tech investments (Uber, Nest, Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Zenefits) and serves as advisor for several start-ups. He is the founder of Adventures In Wonderland, The Hive, VyRT, and A Sharp Knife.

Investment focus

FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Propel — At Propel we build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation.
0x — 0x is an open protocol that facilitates low friction peer-to-peer exchange of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
Rupa Health — Rupa Health is a telehealth solution that makes it easier to practice root cause medicine. The company was established in 2018 and was founded by Tara Viswanathan in San Francisco, California.

Veljo Toodo

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.

Yigit Ihlamur - Co-founder, General Partner @ Vela Partners

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Axiom Cloud — Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaSfees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.
Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.

Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Layla — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.

Hossein is the President of CharityEngine which makes software for nonprofits so they can manage tasks like events management, online fundraising and email marketing. Hossein is also the Co-Founder of Motionsoft and former Executive Vice President for Motionsoft and is the head of Motionsoft’s marketing team. He has been involved in the healthand wellness industry for over nine years and has in-depth knowledge and keen insight into the industry.

Investment focus

Fitness, Software, Wellness
Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Motionsoft — Bundled Gym Management Software for Clubs, Studios and Wellness Centers with Integrated Payment Processing. Designed by Motionsoft.

Jonathan Swanson is the Founder and Chairman of Athena. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Openlayer — The most advanced platform for building high-quality, trustworthy models from the ground up.
Pareto.AI — Pareto matches AI companies with expert-vetted data labelers to fine-tune cutting-edge AI/LLM models. Meet the top 0.01% of AI labelers today.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Charles is the Co-Founder of Blue Goji Corp and CEO & Co-Founder of Indigo 7 and also the Advisor of Berkeley SkyDeck. He is a former co-founder of RedOctane and the co-creator of the Guitar Hero video game franchise. Guitar Hero launched in 2005 and went on to become the fastest video game to reach $1B in sales. Charles left Guitar Hero in2010 and is currently the co-founder of Indigo 7, a startup focused on brands in fashion apparel and entertainment. He is an active, serial angel investor. Charles immigrated to California as a young child and currently resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and two daughters. He holds a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Investment focus

Wellness, Mobile, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

BRIGHT — How old is your brain? Stay sharp with 40Hz light! Shop BEACON40 to mitigate age-related cognitive decline, memory loss, and brain fog.
Three Good — Three Good With the rise of anxiety, depression, and loneliness at the workplace, Three Good's vision is to enable businesses to mitigate the problems that lead to employee turnover. An HCM platform as SaaS was designed to ensure employee mental wellbeing through the three most critically overlooked areas of engagement: cause, care, communityengagement. The platform delivers proven mental wellness insights and analytics for Human Resources to help their employees thrive while making a lasting impact for good.
Nguyen Coffee Supply — Nguyen Coffee Supply is America's first specialty Vietnamese coffee importer and roaster. We are a direct trade company ethically sourcing organic, single origin green beans from Da Lat and fresh roasting locally in Brooklyn, New York. We are 1st Generation, Vietnamese American, woman-owned company.

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.

Mr. Mark S. Mastrov serves as the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Fitness Holdings Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Mastrov serves as a Founding Partner at Steve Nash Fitness World, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. until October 2006. He is considered an innovator and visionary within the health andfitness industry. Mr. Mastrov started 24 Fitness in 1983. From there, he built a fitness empire of more than 420 clubs located in 16 U.S. States, Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Recently, he founded the New Evolution Fitness Company (NEFC). Mr. Mastrov is the Chairman of New Evolution Ventures, which he co-founded. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. He has been a Director of Netpulse, Inc. since March, 2011.

Investment focus

Fitness, Health Care, Apps
Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aviron — Aviron Ltd engages in the research and development of specific antiviral agents against chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection. The company has strategic alliances with CHEMRAR Hi-Tech Center, Chemical Diversity Research Institute, and DRUGS TECHNOLOGY, Ltd. Aviron Ltd was founded in 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Fitplan — Fitplan partners with an ever-growing team of world-class fitness icons, athletes, and professional trainers. They create exclusive training programs & meal plans that you can access through Fitplan.
Sequoia Games — Sequoia Games is a team of all-stars working together to bring to life your favorite games. We combine professional sports with the latest technology and leadership with passion. What you get is greatness.

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Paraform — Get paid to recruit for the most exciting startups on your own terms. Recruiting has never been so accessible.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.

Chris Hughes - Co-Chair @ Economic Security Project

Investment focus

Social Media, Information Technology, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
Greatist — Greatist | Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises
Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.

Vince Thompson is the CEO and managing partner of Middleshift Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to building revenue for internet companies.Thompson started his career in sales and business development at Third Age Media, before moving on to spend seven years at AOL where he served as a VP of various departments. Having worked as anexecutive at America Online, he also has years of experience in media companies, including Break.com, Total Beauty, TVGuide.com, Spark Networks, Inc. and Participant Media. Hutch Media, Entertainment Media Works, and Geodelic Systems are all companies which have seen him in advisory roles.Thompson holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Sports
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

STEEZY — With 1500+ online classes, programs, and more.
Eterneva — Heat, pressure, time, and carbon. That's what's needed for an Eterneva diamond to form. Cremated remains are made up of .0.5-4% carbon.
FanBread — Financial tips, home improvement guides, side hustles, and other hacks to keep you smart on your day-to-day living.

Felix Schaal is an engineer and angel investor based out of Europe.He co-founded the German direct marketing company Felix has been also the chairman of the advisory board ofPrior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Felix has worked at His investments include Berlin-based startups such as Felix is also an active supporter of non profit organizations, e.g.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
HealthUnlocked — We are the world's largest online support network. Ask questions. Get answers. Talk to others who've been there before. #UnlockYourHealth
Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!